Tea Party Republicans delusional, destructive

It seems that the American public will endure almost anything before getting really angry. The current government "shutdown" is a prime example.

A rather small group of zealots who have called themselves "Tea Party" Republicans are dictating the course of governmental affairs. These reactionary and vocal ideologues will stop at nothing to advance their agendas. This is partially a result of their own unrealistic and warped views of how a society should function and partly because of their constituency upon whom they rely for re-election.

For the most part, their constituency has a fairly low educational level with a minimal understanding of the function of government. Then there are the other supporters who are rich and want nothing more than to reduce their taxes at the expense of the other 90 percent.

There is this diehard, Old West vision of individualism which blinds them. Many are unemployed, relying on food stamps and Medicaid for health care and upon unemployment insurance for sustenance and yet are willing to shut down the very hand that feeds them with their idiotic vision of a utopian world in which there are no taxes and a government whose function is only national defense. No thought about Social Security, Medicare, education, veterans, disabled people, infrastructure development, environmental monitoring, national parks, support for vital research, food stamps for the impoverished..I could go on for ever.

The concept of holding the country hostage by calling for a defunding of a legislation that already passed both houses of Congress is unprecedented and immoral. The fight happened, the representatives spoke and the healthcare act is the law of the land, Supreme Court approved.

The most obvious and blatant wrinkle in this is the cowardly John Boehner who has refused to take the clean Senate version back to the House for a vote. He fears the attacks from the fringe Tea Party and has shown himself for the sycophant he is. Anything to remain Speaker of the House, anything. I hold nothing but contempt for this "Quisling," as any rational person should.